163: Chapter 0163 Skill Upgrade

Violet quietly watched Li Size's profile from the side, her eyes full of admiration, like a twinkling little star.

Her fingertips clutched her notebook tightly, as if it were her only reliance at that moment.

"Brother-in-law, I also want to do my part and help you complete this mission."

Her voice held a hint of pleading.

Upon hearing this, Li Size gently stroked her head once more and patiently said:

"Your most important task right now is to master Mechanical Alchemy. As long as you learn this well, you'll have plenty of opportunities to show off your skills in the future."

Felina then exited the Laboratory; she needed to report to Rice about the support required for the mission.

Rice was sitting there at the moment, his brows tightly furrowed, his face full of worry, having been troubled by this mission.

He was also concerned that even Li Size, that kid, might not have a good solution to this difficult problem.

However, what he never expected was that Felina would come to him so quickly with conditions. What did this mean?

This undoubtedly meant that Li Size had already thought of a way to complete the mission quickly!

Heh, this kid really has some tricks up his sleeve, not bad at all!

When Rice heard Felina's demands on behalf of Li Size and the corresponding reasons, he immediately realized the importance of the matter.

So, he quickly contacted The Lurkers' liaison.

The people on the other side, upon receiving the news, also urgently gathered to discuss countermeasures.

After a tense and intense discussion, they quickly replied to Rice.

The support supplies requested by Felina would be delivered as quickly as possible via the Miners Brotherhood's smuggling exclusive line!

After Felina left, Violet sat on a metal bench in the corner of the Laboratory, holding the "winds kiss" design blueprint, her fingertips tracing the complex Rune Matrix on the blueprint—

That was Li Size's latest design for the core structure of the witchcraft motorcycle, every line containing the essence of Mechanical Alchemy.

Her golden hair fell onto the blueprint, her nose almost touching the paper, occasionally marking the Rune's combination logic in her notebook with a pencil, her pointed ears slightly perked up in concentration.

Li Size pushed open the door of the adjacent Laboratory, and a rich scent of metal mixed with magic potions wafted out.

The sorcery machine tool in the center of the Laboratory glowed with a faint blue Demonic Energy light, and the rotation of gears and bearings was regular and dull.

He walked to an unfinished machine tool, his fingertips gently touching the Rune Slot on the machine body—

After days of accumulated experience in manufacturing sorcery machine tools, his Mechanical Alchemy proficiency had reached Great Master Rank 97/100.

Only 3 more points to Breakthrough!

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and mobilized his Mental Energy—

The Mental Energy pattern between his eyebrows glowed with a golden light, echoing the machine tool's Demonic Energy light.

His fingertips began to slide rapidly in the Rune Slot, each touch precisely injecting a trace of Mental Energy. The machine tool's gears gradually accelerated, emitting a low humming sound.

As the last trace of Mental Energy was injected, the machine tool's light suddenly erupted, and a System prompt sounded in Li Size's mind:

"Mechanical Alchemy proficiency has reached 100/100, Great Master Rank Perfection!"

He didn't pause, immediately activating Pay-to-Win Optimization—

His fingertips brushed over the gold coins in his storage ring, 2000 gold coins transforming into a golden energy stream that flowed into an unknown entity in his consciousness.

The knowledge System of Mechanical Alchemy began to reconstruct, and a mysterious aura emanated from him.

Countless data and Alchemy Runes seemed to roll in his pupils, some Alchemy Runes being broken and then reassembled.

Previously undiscovered erroneous details in the process of making Mechanical Alchemy items reappeared one by one, and he now had many new techniques he wanted to try.

Approximately half an hour later, this information torrent ended, and the Pay-to-Win prompt sounded in his mind again:

“Mechanical Alchemy optimization complete, obtained ‘Powerful Mechanical Alchemy (Zero Ring)’ (non-upgradable)”

Possesses the ability to refine Alchemy products below Demonic Energy Rank 13.0, and the upper limit of energy Rank for crafting mechanical witchcraft items is an additional +4.0; effect and durability are increased by 50%."

Not only that, similar to the Potion Refining major skill, the Mechanical Alchemy optimization also brought Li Size three powerful special effects (applicable to Zero Ring magic tools):

1. All Mechanical Alchemy skills are automatically upgraded to Mastery Rank, and other Alchemy Domain skills are upgraded to Proficient Rank.

2. Can spend more Mental Energy to simultaneously mass-produce two to five parts at once.

3. There is a certain chance to Analyze and obtain design blueprints for Mechanical Alchemy items below the skill's upper limit.

A smile played on his lips, meaning that the energy Rank upper limit of the Mechanical Alchemy witchcraft items he would create in the future would reach 17.0.

Far exceeding the level of ordinary apprentice-level Mechanical Alchemists, already entering the Ranks of the lowest-level First Ring witchcraft items.

And the three major special effects, as expected, were similar to those after Potion Refining optimization, both focusing on learning and efficiency improvement.

Combined with the Stingy Meditation Method and Pay-to-Win Ability, Li Size's efficiency in learning any witchcraft Domain knowledge was simply that of a Prodigy!

Besides the gains from Powerful Mechanical Alchemy (Zero Ring), today was an undeniable big day for Li Size.

His 8 commonly used Zero Ring Alchemy Runes, through mass production of Witchcraft Hand Cannon bullets and the use of various double-stacked Alchemy Runes...

All 8 of the commonly used Zero Ring Alchemy Runes he currently mastered had successfully reached Great Master Rank 100/100 proficiency, and he was ready to optimize them all with Pay-to-Win today.

Continuous Pay-to-Win prompts for deducting energy points for deduction and optimization flashed in his mind.

These Alchemy Runes were all optimized one by one through Pay-to-Win deduction.

The optimized Alchemy Runes possessed a brand-new Rune Matrix structure, not only significantly increasing their effectiveness but also essentially becoming a completely new type of Zero Ring Alchemy Rune.

Li Size broke free from the shackles of not being able to teach them again.

He could teach the optimized new Alchemy Runes to anyone or draw Rune Matrix structure scrolls to exchange knowledge with other Wizards.

Aside from Lilith and Violet, he temporarily did not plan to teach most of these Alchemy Runes to the other girls.

It wasn't a matter of distrusting them, but rather that they didn't have the Pay-to-Win Ability to cheat like Li Size.

Too much of a good thing is detrimental; giving them too many good things would instead hinder their progress on their own Wizard path.

As for Lilith and Violet, they were originally part of his plan to cultivate as assistants in his Mechanical Alchemy Domain.

These Alchemy Runes would only serve as nourishment for their growth, accelerating their development.

He carefully savored the information about the new Runes in his mind; this information brought him immense surprise.

His combat power would increase significantly again, and he hadn't even officially started studying at the Higher Academy yet, but he might already have become the top person below a Formal Wizard.